There was nothing better then going to the arcade during the day and the roller skating rink at night , best Saturday ever. Damn i miss the 80'S. GEN X EST. 1971
Mine were similar, but usually involved hanging out with some girlfriends at the Mall "people watching" first, then we usually ended up at the arcade, for no reason other than that's where all the boys were. By 7pm we were at the rink rolling to all the best jams. Not much beat the butterflies of some of those couples only skates. The 80's were definitely a fun time to be a teenager. I miss it too. GEN X. EST.1969
I graduated high school in 1985. This was such a blast from the past. I wish we hadn't moved to the everyone gets a trophy mentality. I think we have made it harder for some young kids to handle adversity.
I graduated highschool 1984 and college 1988. LOVED the 80's. Rock n Roll, big hair bands, corvettes, trans ams, corvettes, camaros, cassette tapes, arcades, roller rinks, drive ins, phones attached to the walls and long cords stretching into bedrooms ~ shut the door, don't trip on it! Major fun concerts I saw all greats ` ACDC, KISS, HEART, Stevie NIcks, REM, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Men Down Under, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd . . . list goes on. Simple, felt safe, no cell phones, typing class and cursive hand writing. Miss those days.
I graduated then too. It was fun, I sucked at typing class though. I remember Home EC , Shop, and Jewelry classes. Kids smoking out in the court yard. Social Studies too, and a cool Science class.
Graduated in 1988, but I remember a lot of *ex drugs and rock n' roll. It was most definitely a more relaxing time of life. Mostly alcohol on my part :) and rock n' roll Loved Motley Crue and W.A.S.P.
"Calgon! Take me away!!!!" "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?" "Don't squeeze the Charmin!" "Double your pleasure, and double your fun, with Wrigley's Doublemint Gum" "Say good-bye a little longer, make it last a little longer..."
We only had Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, MJ, and Madonna? What about Prince, Cindy Lauper, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett, George Michael, U2, The Police, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode? Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, Willow, Dune, Tron, Dragonslayer, Conan the Barbarian, Ladyhawke, Clash of the Titans, Ghostbusters?
86 and 87 was very memorable for me. Especially the summers.. I was in my mid teens in great shape , had great friends , hot girls around , the mall was the place to be ,riding your BMX bikes around town late at night on a hot summer night. Amazing music going to the movies was a big thing working on cars drinking beers late at night in the woods with your buddies, going to concerts and your ears ringing for 3 days after the show! Life was so much easier back then. we were filled with so much life no drama no worries just living every moment and taking it all in. I wouldn’t change a thing.
I turned 16 in 1980 . Where has time gone. That decade was a great time. I was broke most of the time and didn’t make much money, but It was still an amazing time. I loved going to the comic book store and record stores, had my Sony Walkman. I was good. 😊 and plus I had those rainbow Mork suspenders.
Ha ha, with the comparatively small and forgiving CRT TV´s it definately looked ok and back then i was young and had much better eye sight than now in my 50´s. It surpricinly was ok in spite of having only 240 lines of the 625 lines normally used here in Sweden.
Dude, I have been a HUGE Jackie Chan fan since the late 80's early 90's. If I wanted to emulate a move he did, I had to rewind it back 5--10 seconds over and over to see what he did. After a while, I got good at knowing how fast the VHS player would take to get to where I needed.
I watched ET on a pirated VHS copy before it hit the cinema in the U.K…and at the end of the film, I still didn’t know what ET looked like! True story…the picture quality was /that/ bad. But, we’d “seen” the film and that was what counted.
Things I could add to this are that VHS tapes cost upwards of $100 which is why movie rentals were the thing people did. Microfilm at the library to look up old news paper articles or whatever else would be on them. Nintendo and Sega games were also rentals. Kids today will never know what making a Mix tape was, or recording songs from the radio to catch your favorite song. Kids today will never know how limiting the phone cord was.
Kids today have no idea😂 I gotta actually get up and pull a knob to turn the TV on? I gotta turn a knob to change the channel? I gotta go on the roof and adjust the antenna? 😂 I gotta get a drink out of the hose instead of dirtying a glass?!?;?! I love these videos😊
I caught the tail end of black and white TVs. We had one in our house when i was young. Then I remember the beginning of remote controls. You'd press a button to change a channel, and it sounded like you were operating a staple gun. Cha-chunk, cha-chunk...
In the early to mid 80s you had to wait 2 years after a movie was released to see it on cable or VHS. Even longer to see the edited version on regular television.
My first teenage job (outside my paper route) was a video store. We had VHS and Beta. As a worker, I was able to prescreen all the new releases and felt like a god. HAHA
OMG; you've never seen Labyrinth?!!! 😱 David Bowie was absolutely brilliant in this movie, so wonderfully sarcastic. Oh how I miss him and his music. 😢
Labyrinth was an interesting concept...the whole undertone of the movie was the realizations of growing from a child into an adult. It makes 100,000% more sense when viewing it when you're 30+
Remember the Pizza Hut 'Book it' program, where Pizza Hut would give School Kids Free Pizza for reading so many Books, at their In-house Stores....you never hear about this program anymore since Pizza Huts are now 'Delivery/Pick-up Only' doing away with the 'Restaurant Seating' in their stores.
My teen years were the 80's, I can certainly relate to a lot of things here: 1) Yep, we had a computer room in our high school, it's where most of us headed to if we needed to do something 2) Renting movies as much fun as it was, wasn't always the greatest, new movies weren't always available when VCR's first came out, new releases sometimes took months, buying movies was a whole other ballgame, they could easily run you over a $100 each 3) Arcades were a huge hangout for teens, that and malls, it's where most of us would congregate, malls are still popular in today's world, but it was a little different back then, large malls were really coming in to their own 4) Phones... people that were around back then can appreciate cell phones more than anyone. Phone companies had the market on what we used in the work place or at home and they could charge whatever they wanted for long distance calls. You simply didn't make long distance calls unless you absolutely had to, it was that expensive. In today's world with all the competition out there, calling long distance is nothing now Things have changed a lot in the last forty years, but for the most part, it's been the technology where we've evolved so much.
Back then, if you wanted to know where your friends were. Without making a phone call. Just find the house that had all their bikes, strewn all over the front lawn. Good times man, good times. 🙂🙂🙂
I was a latch key kid, but it didn’t bother me. I sort of had a curfew and had to be home before dark. Unlike today the streets were safe and we could do as we like. I loved to skate/skateboard down my block and spent a lot of time riding my bicycle around town.
I was a latch key kid too. I had my routine of head home, drop off my school books, head over to the corner video store to grab something to watch while I did my homework. After homework, I'd get dinner started for when my Mom got home and did some chores unless I let my Mom know I was going to hang with friends and she knew their parents and had their phone numbers so if she needed me home early, she'd make calls. For how many pitied us for not having a parent home waiting for us, it did help us develop the dependence we'd need for later on in life.
Your personal comments were spot on for me for the most part. We respected EVERYONE'S parents, and i was lucky to have a ton of different aged kids around. We played baseball in the street (Army Corps of Engineers housing from before we lived there when they were building reservoirs and turnpikes etc.) and rode our bikes everywhere through the neighborhood. We used our dads tools to build things and fix our own bikes. We played every sport and the girls would play too. Any day we didn't have school we were outside all day if it wasn't raining. If it was a blizzard,our moms and dads would have to yell at us to come back in the house because the snow ruled our world.
I'm an 1980's baby as well. I remember the movie rentals and I had a Nintendo, I even had an Atari. I even remember the paper airplanes you would get from the Ice cream truck. I was even raised around some 1970's stuff like those big Televisions that sat on the floor with leopard type sofas, With record players and cassettes. I remember the Jukebox and even the machines where they sold cigarettes. I remember growing up with a big bulky Stereo System the kind where the speakers sat on the floor, in those times computer wasn't very popular. You had to play outside as well. A lot of stuff in those days,
was born in '66 so I literally grew up in 3 decades! Never saw a computer till high school in '83'-'84. We had to rent movies and that was one of the best parts of the weekends!! wished we could go back to some of those days, they were the best!!
I remember the Just Say No Project as our own kids tv programme from here in the UK went over to the White House after the story line from the 79/ 80's 'Grange Hill' series set in a London Comprehensive School (high school) some episodes are on youtube but they dealt with hard hitting subjects for a kids programme such as bullying, racism and drug addiction...the racism featuring main bully character Gripper Stebson and the drug addiction featured Zammo Maguire chasing the dragon in the school toilets and descending into addiction.....would love you to review and see what a UK English Comrehensive School was like back in the 80's ... xx
We rented the vcr and 2-3 tapes… not a filled weekend. Most of the weekend was spend adventuring in the forests/sandpits/power lines/lakes/streams/fields…. Climbing trees, building forts, jumping off cliffs. Musical taste was developed by going to the library and borrowing Rush Aerosmith def leopard and Neil young vinyl records. Your bike was EVERYTHING and trips to the dump with dad were forever memories… I’d relive the 80s in a heartbeat
Going to Blockbuster or the other video stores was always fun and exciting to me. I honestly kind of miss it. Just the feel and environment. Going into music stores was much the same way. Literally walking in going through the albums and buying posters and shirts of your favorite bands. The weekly TV episode was a ritual. My favorite of the time was Home Improvement. Social media is definitely raising your kids today and it’s not a good thing.
Born in 1969. Graduated in 87. I have to say it was the best time to grow up. I spent the 70s as a child and my teens were all the 80s. It was the best of times!! I wouldn’t change a thing!
I was born in 69' so, was a kid in the 70's, teen in the 80's. As much as I enjoyed my teens... If givin the choice to live in any decade from my lifetime, I'd pick the 70's in a heartbeat.
Regarding what you said about social media, this is something that was brought up in a book called "The Dumbest Generation". Whether you grew up in the 90s, the 80s, the 40s, or whenever, there came a time when you were finished interacting with your friends for the night: you hung up the phone, or you walked home, etc. But with social media, you have one vague but continuous 24-7 connection.
Nah...not everything...i personally don't miss either of the last two decades...good riddance they are gone...i don't have any kind of nastalgia for that period, it was pretty underwhelming...i miss 80s and 90s...00s and 10's of this century? Not so much...
I had the Mork suspenders with pins. I remember the moon pin. Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton of Star Trek!! Man that video was spot on brother!! haha we either called them or went over to their place. The just say no was a damn lie and a failure. What a way to put people in prison for money.. Free the drugs free yourself. What you said there at the end was spot on man. And times change. Not always for the better.
I actually miss going to the video stores and such. The corner coffee shops too. Everybody knew everybody. Real face to face interactions with other members of the community.
I graduated in 1985. I'm telling you, the 80's were amazing. To grow up in todays era is sad. You had a problem you fought with your fist. You were speeding, you got told to slow down. You got in a fight in school, you, sometimes got a paddling or maybe suspended a day or 2. Now, cops are called handcuffs. In my school parking lot there was several trucks with guns in the back window. No one pulled them and shot people. We had gun clubs. So much has changed for the WORSE.
Graduated at 17yrs old in 1982, by 1986 was a first time Mom...the 80's hit hard from both sides😂 Memories as a teen and from a Mom's perspective thru my Son. It's weird to explain.
I was born somewhere in the last few years of Gen X. I remember our town had 2 game arcades. One was a big flashy one at the top of the town, and the other was a dingy smoke filled place you had to walk down a dark alley to get to. I've fond memories from both, particularly the latter when I hit my teenage years.
I was a 70’s baby, I wouldn’t give up our freedoms for anything that the 80’s or 90’s babies had. We left the house after breakfast and often didn’t return till the street lights came on, of course any mother in the neighborhood could reprimand you, but they also fed you and took care of any injuries. It was definitely a different time and we had more freedom then any generation since!
I was born '72. In my elementary school in third grade, which would have been around 1980 I guess (can't remember), they had a school-wide writing competition for the third grade through sixth grade classes. If I remember right, the school distributed a three page panel of cartoons without the word bubbles and the students were to create a story from the pictures. The "prize" was getting to type out their story on the school's one-and-only computer and printer, which was in the office, and have it published in the local newspaper. I won it out of around 200 other kids (big school). I got to skip all my classes for the day and type out my story on a computer (which was basically a word processor at the time, and took me all day). Thank God for the copy editor at the local paper to correct all my mistakes. Though they left a few in for comedic value... I was a little kid. That was a great start to my 80's.
Being Gen X I have to say my days were the greatest. 1 all races played together in school or outside of school. There was no racism in my day. Board games or just playing outside with hot wheels or bigger trucks. Riding bikes or going to a park to slide down a metal slide. Even the merry go round was amazing. 8 tracks and records. Then Cassette tapes and VHS',s were awesome. Skating rinks. The mall's with Radio Shack and Kaybee toy store's were fun. We had Childersn Palace toy store which was the greatest toy store. Etc.
I was a child of the 70's and the thing I remember that even kids of the 80's might not is the whole experience of getting and sharing music. I would hear new music on the radio or at a friends house. I got music by sharing records or going to a store to buy them. Records were expensive to me so I had a 3 song rule, I had to have liked 3 songs from an album before I'd shell out the $7 it cost. Too often I'd have bought something cause I liked one song only to find that the rest were duds. I also spend a lot of time at used record stores flipping thru the stacks, used recs were $2 to $4, less if they were scratched or worn. Music was also a social event, either shopping together or going to someone's house to listen to their records. Another thing that I think is totally lost is the experience of album art. Album covers were big enough to support and view actual art work, some of which was fantastic. There were front and back covers, inner covers for a double albums, and sometimes multi-page inserts, Jethro Tulls' "thick as a brick" had an actual pretend English small town newspaper folded into the album cover. Cassette tapes were another way to share music. I gave and got dozen of mix tapes and I had a portable Sony Walkman recorder that I carried with me. I recorded lots of music while visiting friends. Having said that, now I mostly stream to get music now, I listen to SO SO SO much more music now than I ever could have bought on record, so overall a vast improvement over records. peace out hippies.
I was 13 starting 1980. Perfect timing. We would hit the Video store Monday first thing to get the returned new releases. I feel so bad watching kids these days just staring at phones all day. My highschool had a computer room with 8 Apple computers.
One if the strange realities of growing older . Hell, I remember when TV had just started to switch to color programming, when phones had rotary dials, and when car windows had to be raised and lowered by hand. Time can be surreal at times.
When we were left alone we were alone. There wasn't any Internet exposure to the darkness of humanity. We had friends and imagination to inspire dreams while keeping us humble.
I graduated high school in 1983. To me, The best entertainment advances were the introduction of the compact disc and the vcr. I bought my first vcr in 1987. It cost me $299.00.
Awesome retrospective video. Besides the collect call ; there was the Pay-Per Min calls for Adults. So many memories. Being A Gen-Xer I could of never imagined how things would turn-out. Compared to now ; in the 80's and early 90's physical activities were more the normal then now. Being with a group of friends doing various things - like playing home versions of sports. Another thing we had was the Trapper Keeper Organizer - there was also the Pee Chee All Season Portfolio by Mead
OMG!!! You haven't seen Labyrinth??? You have GOT TO SEE IT!!! David Bowie at his best... The goblin king (his character) was a perfect match to him... And of course his music ... The movie is a good classic... You have to watch it
For me as someone that was born in the early 70´s here in Sweden, rainbows were mainly a symbol used in the 70´s and as indicated here didnt have the same meaning at all as today, it was more a symbol of fantasy and wonders like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for example. One of my favourite bands from the 70´s were actually named Rainbow and had a big cool light stage prop over the stage that was programmed to light in different patterns and colors. I recall all the things in the video very well and i never even used a computer at school but i had my own VIC-20 in the early 80´s and then the Commodore 64 a little later, in the 70´s pretty much no one had a computer at home and few used it at work, that changed quite a bit during the 80´s but it wasnt until the internet revolution of the mid 90´s or so that it started to move ahead towards everyone havaing a computer.
As kids, we ran all over the neighborhood, skateboarding, playing baseball, building snow forts, or playing ‘war’ in the alleys & garages of the neighborhood. We were active from sun-up to dusk, snacks & cartoons at each kid’s house ‘til the mom kicked us out 🎉
I took computer programming in 8th grade in '87-'88. The teacher told us that everyone would have to be a computer programmer in the future. In '88-'89 I moved to 9th grade, and the school switched to IBM computers so no one had to learn programming, lol. The future felt like it was coming SO FAST.
Jamal, dude you are a wonderful human. Thank you for your honesty and integrity. There should be more people in the world like you. Keep it real and keep good music alive 😊
I have no recollection of which restaurant was giving them out but we had Looney Tunes glass cups. We had almost all of them but occasionally we would stumble upon a new glass we didn’t know existed
There was nothing better then going to the arcade during the day and the roller skating rink at night , best Saturday ever. Damn i miss the 80'S. GEN X EST. 1971
Mine were similar, but usually involved hanging out with some girlfriends at the Mall "people watching" first, then we usually ended up at the arcade, for no reason other than that's where all the boys were. By 7pm we were at the rink rolling to all the best jams. Not much beat the butterflies of some of those couples only skates. The 80's were definitely a fun time to be a teenager. I miss it too.
GEN X. EST.1969
Yep my first job was at the rink as the skateroom attendant 14 still worked the on weekends till they closed in 2002.
Established in 65. The 80s was the best era. I like what there is today and definitely participate.
The best part of the arcades was I could bike there and meet up with my friends for some adult-free fun.
80’s missing here to ✌🏻🫡🇳🇴1970
"Be Kind, Rewind!"
Bwaaaa!!!
Dude....
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Was just about to make this comment 😂
That is burned in my core memory!!
I graduated high school in 1985. This was such a blast from the past. I wish we hadn't moved to the everyone gets a trophy mentality. I think we have made it harder for some young kids to handle adversity.
You were "The Breakfast Club" lot.
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I graduated highschool 1984 and college 1988. LOVED the 80's. Rock n Roll, big hair bands, corvettes, trans ams, corvettes, camaros, cassette tapes, arcades, roller rinks, drive ins, phones attached to the walls and long cords stretching into bedrooms ~ shut the door, don't trip on it! Major fun concerts I saw all greats ` ACDC, KISS, HEART, Stevie NIcks, REM, Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Men Down Under, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd . . . list goes on. Simple, felt safe, no cell phones, typing class and cursive hand writing. Miss those days.
Of all the wonderful things you listed, the best one... No cell phones.
I graduated then too. It was fun, I sucked at typing class though. I remember Home EC , Shop, and Jewelry classes. Kids smoking out in the court yard. Social Studies too, and a cool Science class.
"Men Down Under"
I assume you mean Men At Work, who sang 'Land Down Under'?
lol yea! They opened for Fleetwood Mac at Rup Arena in Lexingron, first time in America and I was there for it -. Men At Work. @@DragonAttackInBlue
Fawn - should've mentioned corvettes a few more times. Would've made it hilarious. That's where I thought we were going at first. Disappointed. 😏
Graduated 1985 and the 80s were the best of times. I'm truly glad I grew up in the decades I did.
I graduated in 1986
I'm Class of 1985 too. Childhood in the 70's & teen/young adult during the 80's - the best era!
I’m a 1985 grad too 🙌
Graduated in 1988, but I remember a lot of *ex drugs and rock n' roll. It was most definitely a more relaxing time of life. Mostly alcohol on my part :) and rock n' roll Loved Motley Crue and W.A.S.P.
❤ class of ‘85 🙌 ❤ awesome concert fundraisers! Farm Aid, World Aid, Hands Across America…
"I've fallen, and I can't get up!"
"Where's the beef?"
Whatcha talkin' bout Willis??
@@johnfleming4082 ROFLMOAO
"Calgon! Take me away!!!!"
"Ancient Chinese secret, huh?"
"Don't squeeze the Charmin!"
"Double your pleasure, and double your fun, with Wrigley's Doublemint Gum"
"Say good-bye a little longer, make it last a little longer..."
When I bite into a York peppermint patty…
IN YOUR TEETH
We only had Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, MJ, and Madonna?
What about Prince, Cindy Lauper, Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett, George Michael, U2, The Police, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode?
Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, The Princess Bride, Willow, Dune, Tron, Dragonslayer, Conan the Barbarian, Ladyhawke, Clash of the Titans, Ghostbusters?
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86 and 87 was very memorable for me. Especially the summers.. I was in my mid teens in great shape , had great friends , hot girls around , the mall was the place to be ,riding your BMX bikes around town late at night on a hot summer night. Amazing music going to the movies was a big thing working on cars drinking beers late at night in the woods with your buddies, going to concerts and your ears ringing for 3 days after the show! Life was so much easier back then. we were filled with so much life no drama no worries just living every moment and taking it all in. I wouldn’t change a thing.
Childhood nostalgia right here. Glad I was fortunate to know the world then. Its so different now.
I turned 16 in 1980 . Where has time gone. That decade was a great time. I was broke most of the time and didn’t make much money, but It was still an amazing time. I loved going to the comic book store and record stores, had my Sony Walkman. I was good. 😊 and plus I had those rainbow Mork suspenders.
What??? Male and no mention of an arcade? Are you SURE your from the 80's? 😊
There was DEFINATELY more music than MJ and Madonna.... Thank the good lord!
Definitely*
Yep,I think Prince and Whitney Houston were just as mega in the 80s but there was so much 'proper' music then😂👍
It was the golden age of gangsta rap and thrash metal. If you wanted to be a rebel, that's what you'd listen to!
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And theirs 5 of you grammar police??@@MarvinMonroe
Remember when VHS quality looked good enough? 😂
Ha ha, with the comparatively small and forgiving CRT TV´s it definately looked ok and back then i was young and had much better eye sight than now in my 50´s. It surpricinly was ok in spite of having only 240 lines of the 625 lines normally used here in Sweden.
Of course when that's all you have. But would I go back? No!😅
Dude, I have been a HUGE Jackie Chan fan since the late 80's early 90's. If I wanted to emulate a move he did, I had to rewind it back 5--10 seconds over and over to see what he did.
After a while, I got good at knowing how fast the VHS player would take to get to where I needed.
Still have 3 vcr and about 400 VHS 😊
I watched ET on a pirated VHS copy before it hit the cinema in the U.K…and at the end of the film, I still didn’t know what ET looked like! True story…the picture quality was /that/ bad. But, we’d “seen” the film and that was what counted.
Gen X here, this video is approved for all! Thanks for sharing.
oh! oh! Filmstrip progectors! and you were one special kid to get to turn the crank :)
Thank you Jamal.
The best time to grow up!
It really was!
This is your brain on drugs.
This is your brain with bacon and two slices of toast.
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"What are you on? Looks like a frying pan and some eggs to me!"
~ Freddy Krueger
You're right that no one would rewind their tapes today Jamel. 😂
I wish I could rewind back to 1980 and start over with what I know
Right?
Things I could add to this are that VHS tapes cost upwards of $100 which is why movie rentals were the thing people did. Microfilm at the library to look up old news paper articles or whatever else would be on them. Nintendo and Sega games were also rentals. Kids today will never know what making a Mix tape was, or recording songs from the radio to catch your favorite song. Kids today will never know how limiting the phone cord was.
Kids today have no idea😂 I gotta actually get up and pull a knob to turn the TV on? I gotta turn a knob to change the channel? I gotta go on the roof and adjust the antenna? 😂 I gotta get a drink out of the hose instead of dirtying a glass?!?;?! I love these videos😊
Yup especially the antenna. Pipe wrench in hand and a chain of kids yelling if and when it came in
I remember rolling down the window in the car 🚗 lol 😆
I caught the tail end of black and white TVs. We had one in our house when i was young.
Then I remember the beginning of remote controls. You'd press a button to change a channel, and it sounded like you were operating a staple gun. Cha-chunk, cha-chunk...
In the early to mid 80s you had to wait 2 years after a movie was released to see it on cable or VHS. Even longer to see the edited version on regular television.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. It definitely was a great time to be alive.
My first teenage job (outside my paper route) was a video store. We had VHS and Beta. As a worker, I was able to prescreen all the new releases and felt like a god. HAHA
OMG; you've never seen Labyrinth?!!! 😱 David Bowie was absolutely brilliant in this movie, so wonderfully sarcastic. Oh how I miss him and his music. 😢
Labyrinth was an interesting concept...the whole undertone of the movie was the realizations of growing from a child into an adult. It makes 100,000% more sense when viewing it when you're 30+
Remember the Pizza Hut 'Book it' program, where Pizza Hut would give School Kids Free Pizza for reading so many Books, at their In-house Stores....you never hear about this program anymore since Pizza Huts are now 'Delivery/Pick-up Only' doing away with the 'Restaurant Seating' in their stores.
My teen years were the 80's, I can certainly relate to a lot of things here:
1) Yep, we had a computer room in our high school, it's where most of us headed to if we needed to do something
2) Renting movies as much fun as it was, wasn't always the greatest, new movies weren't always available when VCR's first came out, new releases sometimes took months, buying movies was a whole other ballgame, they could easily run you over a $100 each
3) Arcades were a huge hangout for teens, that and malls, it's where most of us would congregate, malls are still popular in today's world, but it was a little different back then, large malls were really coming in to their own
4) Phones... people that were around back then can appreciate cell phones more than anyone. Phone companies had the market on what we used in the work place or at home and they could charge whatever they wanted for long distance calls. You simply didn't make long distance calls unless you absolutely had to, it was that expensive. In today's world with all the competition out there, calling long distance is nothing now
Things have changed a lot in the last forty years, but for the most part, it's been the technology where we've evolved so much.
I still have the microphone raisin guy…I was 14 when the 80s started. They totally didn’t mention the 80s metal scene which was so huge.
Recolletion Road and Rhetty for History are two of the best RUclips nostalgia channels out there.
OMG Jamal you gotta watch labyrinth!! It's classic😊
Yes indeed!! One of my 80’s favorites as a kid back then.
I graduated in 1980 when I was 17...shortly thereafter I spent 4 years in the US Army!
Thank you for your service
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I’m a Gen X, the 80’s were the best time to grow up! ❤ For me it was the best of times but financially the worst, we didn’t have much.
Back then, if you wanted to know where your friends were. Without making a phone call. Just find the house that had all their bikes, strewn all over the front lawn. Good times man, good times. 🙂🙂🙂
Hahaha so true!
I was a latch key kid, but it didn’t bother me. I sort of had a curfew and had to be home before dark. Unlike today the streets were safe and we could do as we like.
I loved to skate/skateboard down my block and spent a lot of time riding my bicycle around town.
I was a latch key kid too. I had my routine of head home, drop off my school books, head over to the corner video store to grab something to watch while I did my homework. After homework, I'd get dinner started for when my Mom got home and did some chores unless I let my Mom know I was going to hang with friends and she knew their parents and had their phone numbers so if she needed me home early, she'd make calls. For how many pitied us for not having a parent home waiting for us, it did help us develop the dependence we'd need for later on in life.
Your personal comments were spot on for me for the most part. We respected EVERYONE'S parents, and i was lucky to have a ton of different aged kids around. We played baseball in the street (Army Corps of Engineers housing from before we lived there when they were building reservoirs and turnpikes etc.) and rode our bikes everywhere through the neighborhood. We used our dads tools to build things and fix our own bikes. We played every sport and the girls would play too. Any day we didn't have school we were outside all day if it wasn't raining. If it was a blizzard,our moms and dads would have to yell at us to come back in the house because the snow ruled our world.
Seriously!!! See Labyrinth!! If you admire Bowie in any way, you will LOVE this movie!! If just for the fantasy story, it's so well worth it!
So Many Memories in the 1980s-Great Stuff
Dude, you got to see Labyrinth! It’s trippy.
I'm an 1980's baby as well.
I remember the movie rentals and I had a Nintendo, I even had an Atari. I even remember the paper airplanes you would get from the Ice cream truck.
I was even raised around some 1970's stuff like those big Televisions that sat on the floor with leopard type sofas,
With record players and cassettes. I remember the Jukebox and even the machines where they sold cigarettes.
I remember growing up with a big bulky Stereo System the kind where the speakers sat on the floor,
in those times computer wasn't very popular.
You had to play outside as well. A lot of stuff in those days,
I Grew up in the late 70's - 80's, it was a great time for me then so much Fun and Happy times!
was born in '66 so I literally grew up in 3 decades! Never saw a computer till high school in '83'-'84. We had to rent movies and that was one of the best parts of the weekends!! wished we could go back to some of those days, they were the best!!
I remember the Just Say No Project as our own kids tv programme from here in the UK went over to the White House after the story line from the 79/ 80's 'Grange Hill' series set in a London Comprehensive School (high school) some episodes are on youtube but they dealt with hard hitting subjects for a kids programme such as bullying, racism and drug addiction...the racism featuring main bully character Gripper Stebson and the drug addiction featured Zammo Maguire chasing the dragon in the school toilets and descending into addiction.....would love you to review and see what a UK English Comrehensive School was like back in the 80's ... xx
We rented the vcr and 2-3 tapes… not a filled weekend. Most of the weekend was spend adventuring in the forests/sandpits/power lines/lakes/streams/fields…. Climbing trees, building forts, jumping off cliffs. Musical taste was developed by going to the library and borrowing Rush Aerosmith def leopard and Neil young vinyl records. Your bike was EVERYTHING and trips to the dump with dad were forever memories… I’d relive the 80s in a heartbeat
Good ol days!! Great memories. Thank you.
I miss the 80s so much it hurts
Going to Blockbuster or the other video stores was always fun and exciting to me. I honestly kind of miss it. Just the feel and environment. Going into music stores was much the same way. Literally walking in going through the albums and buying posters and shirts of your favorite bands. The weekly TV episode was a ritual. My favorite of the time was Home Improvement. Social media is definitely raising your kids today and it’s not a good thing.
Born in 1969. Graduated in 87. I have to say it was the best time to grow up. I spent the 70s as a child and my teens were all the 80s. It was the best of times!! I wouldn’t change a thing!
Calling Coleect at a payphone then pass a message instead of stating name
We would call collect when we needed to be picked up from roller skating and the call would be ‘denied’ but the message was the call itself.
100% my parents made us do that!
I was a 70s baby, my teen years in the 80s... i wish i had the 70s back.
I was born in 69' so, was a kid in the 70's, teen in the 80's. As much as I enjoyed my teens... If givin the choice to live in any decade from my lifetime, I'd pick the 70's in a heartbeat.
Born in '67. Feel the same way. Turned 57 today and wish I was 17 again. Still remember most of the 70s.
Regarding what you said about social media, this is something that was brought up in a book called "The Dumbest Generation". Whether you grew up in the 90s, the 80s, the 40s, or whenever, there came a time when you were finished interacting with your friends for the night: you hung up the phone, or you walked home, etc. But with social media, you have one vague but continuous 24-7 connection.
Sadly, everything in life, when looked back upon in recollection, is better than when you were living through it.
Nah...not everything...i personally don't miss either of the last two decades...good riddance they are gone...i don't have any kind of nastalgia for that period, it was pretty underwhelming...i miss 80s and 90s...00s and 10's of this century? Not so much...
We had to rent the VCR machine and the VHS tapes
*VCR. No need to add the word "machine" to the end.
I had the Mork suspenders with pins. I remember the moon pin. Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton of Star Trek!! Man that video was spot on brother!! haha we either called them or went over to their place. The just say no was a damn lie and a failure. What a way to put people in prison for money.. Free the drugs free yourself.
What you said there at the end was spot on man. And times change. Not always for the better.
I graduated in 1986. It was the best time of my life. Including movies and music💚
I actually miss going to the video stores and such. The corner coffee shops too. Everybody knew everybody. Real face to face interactions with other members of the community.
That Oregon trail bring back memories of my junior high computer lab, playing that as a kid it was so fun.
I graduated in 1985. I'm telling you, the 80's were amazing. To grow up in todays era is sad. You had a problem you fought with your fist. You were speeding, you got told to slow down. You got in a fight in school, you, sometimes got a paddling or maybe suspended a day or 2. Now, cops are called handcuffs. In my school parking lot there was several trucks with guns in the back window. No one pulled them and shot people. We had gun clubs. So much has changed for the WORSE.
Fun look back. Thank you.
Graduated at 17yrs old in 1982, by 1986 was a first time Mom...the 80's hit hard from both sides😂 Memories as a teen and from a Mom's perspective thru my Son. It's weird to explain.
I was born somewhere in the last few years of Gen X. I remember our town had 2 game arcades. One was a big flashy one at the top of the town, and the other was a dingy smoke filled place you had to walk down a dark alley to get to. I've fond memories from both, particularly the latter when I hit my teenage years.
I was a 70’s baby, I wouldn’t give up our freedoms for anything that the 80’s or 90’s babies had. We left the house after breakfast and often didn’t return till the street lights came on, of course any mother in the neighborhood could reprimand you, but they also fed you and took care of any injuries. It was definitely a different time and we had more freedom then any generation since!
I was born '72. In my elementary school in third grade, which would have been around 1980 I guess (can't remember), they had a school-wide writing competition for the third grade through sixth grade classes. If I remember right, the school distributed a three page panel of cartoons without the word bubbles and the students were to create a story from the pictures. The "prize" was getting to type out their story on the school's one-and-only computer and printer, which was in the office, and have it published in the local newspaper. I won it out of around 200 other kids (big school). I got to skip all my classes for the day and type out my story on a computer (which was basically a word processor at the time, and took me all day). Thank God for the copy editor at the local paper to correct all my mistakes. Though they left a few in for comedic value... I was a little kid. That was a great start to my 80's.
Being Gen X I have to say my days were the greatest. 1 all races played together in school or outside of school. There was no racism in my day. Board games or just playing outside with hot wheels or bigger trucks. Riding bikes or going to a park to slide down a metal slide. Even the merry go round was amazing. 8 tracks and records. Then Cassette tapes and VHS',s were awesome. Skating rinks. The mall's with Radio Shack and Kaybee toy store's were fun. We had Childersn Palace toy store which was the greatest toy store. Etc.
Im a early 90's kid and i remember a lot of these and i still think a lot of things need to make a comeback.
Tuesday night was my fav. You got your happy days, Laverne and shirley, three's company and taxi all in one whack!
If you werent an early 80's kid or before, you missed out on the best part of life. The childhood was beyond amazing.
I was a child of the 70's and the thing I remember that even kids of the 80's might not is the whole experience of getting and sharing music. I would hear new music on the radio or at a friends house. I got music by sharing records or going to a store to buy them. Records were expensive to me so I had a 3 song rule, I had to have liked 3 songs from an album before I'd shell out the $7 it cost. Too often I'd have bought something cause I liked one song only to find that the rest were duds. I also spend a lot of time at used record stores flipping thru the stacks, used recs were $2 to $4, less if they were scratched or worn. Music was also a social event, either shopping together or going to someone's house to listen to their records. Another thing that I think is totally lost is the experience of album art. Album covers were big enough to support and view actual art work, some of which was fantastic. There were front and back covers, inner covers for a double albums, and sometimes multi-page inserts, Jethro Tulls' "thick as a brick" had an actual pretend English small town newspaper folded into the album cover. Cassette tapes were another way to share music. I gave and got dozen of mix tapes and I had a portable Sony Walkman recorder that I carried with me. I recorded lots of music while visiting friends. Having said that, now I mostly stream to get music now, I listen to SO SO SO much more music now than I ever could have bought on record, so overall a vast improvement over records.
peace out hippies.
I was 13 starting 1980. Perfect timing. We would hit the Video store Monday first thing to get the returned new releases. I feel so bad watching kids these days just staring at phones all day. My highschool had a computer room with 8 Apple computers.
One if the strange realities of growing older . Hell, I remember when TV had just started to switch to color programming, when phones had rotary dials, and when car windows had to be raised and lowered by hand. Time can be surreal at times.
When we were left alone we were alone. There wasn't any Internet exposure to the darkness of humanity. We had friends and imagination to inspire dreams while keeping us humble.
Graduated 1990 so the 80s was my coming of age decade. This video took me back.
Different times for sure. My kids were teens in the 80’s
I miss going to the stores for vinyls, cassettes, and cds.
Nothing better than practical effects in movies, so much better than CGI which takes you out of it.
you are so right. Thank You for this video, it was nostalqe trip to childhood
I want my MTV!.....⭐
I graduated high school in 1983. To me, The best entertainment advances were the introduction of the compact disc and the vcr. I bought my first vcr in 1987. It cost me $299.00.
Awesome retrospective video. Besides the collect call ; there was the Pay-Per Min calls for Adults. So many memories. Being A Gen-Xer I could of never imagined how things would turn-out. Compared to now ; in the 80's and early 90's physical activities were more the normal then now. Being with a group of friends doing various things - like playing home versions of sports. Another thing we had was the Trapper Keeper Organizer - there was also the Pee Chee All Season Portfolio by Mead
OMG!!! You haven't seen Labyrinth??? You have GOT TO SEE IT!!! David Bowie at his best... The goblin king (his character) was a perfect match to him... And of course his music ... The movie is a good classic... You have to watch it
Labyrinth is unbelievable nostalgia for me! Never Ending Story as well! I I have the Movie Posters! I was born in 1988!
7:20 Michael Jackson.. MaDonna.. and PRINCE!
I'm saying this before the video even begins. They'll never understand good hard rock/heavy metal.
Thanks for the reaction, Jamal! Gen X forever, baby! Life seemed so much simpler back then.
My first girl friend was in 1981 i met her in a video arcade, i will never forget her. NICE😍😍
Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies. I bet I've watched it 500+ times in my life!
For me as someone that was born in the early 70´s here in Sweden, rainbows were mainly a symbol used in the 70´s and as indicated here didnt have the same meaning at all as today, it was more a symbol of fantasy and wonders like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for example. One of my favourite bands from the 70´s were actually named Rainbow and had a big cool light stage prop over the stage that was programmed to light in different patterns and colors. I recall all the things in the video very well and i never even used a computer at school but i had my own VIC-20 in the early 80´s and then the Commodore 64 a little later, in the 70´s pretty much no one had a computer at home and few used it at work, that changed quite a bit during the 80´s but it wasnt until the internet revolution of the mid 90´s or so that it started to move ahead towards everyone havaing a computer.
As kids, we ran all over the neighborhood, skateboarding, playing baseball, building snow forts, or playing ‘war’ in the alleys & garages of the neighborhood. We were active from sun-up to dusk, snacks & cartoons at each kid’s house ‘til the mom kicked us out 🎉
Giving someone a dollar if they gave you a ride somewhere! It covered a little over a gallon of gas!!
I was in my 20's in the 80's. Born in 1962, I remember the decade well.
I took computer programming in 8th grade in '87-'88. The teacher told us that everyone would have to be a computer programmer in the future. In '88-'89 I moved to 9th grade, and the school switched to IBM computers so no one had to learn programming, lol. The future felt like it was coming SO FAST.
I'm old, I remember just hanging out at a mom&pop store
Jamal, dude you are a wonderful human. Thank you for your honesty and integrity. There should be more people in the world like you. Keep it real and keep good music alive 😊
I have no recollection of which restaurant was giving them out but we had Looney Tunes glass cups. We had almost all of them but occasionally we would stumble upon a new glass we didn’t know existed
Might have been Burger King? They did a lot of the “collectible glasses” thing.
Thanks Jamal!
7:20 - uh, Prince was a huge star in the 1980s.
Born in 77 and the 80's were my childhood with 90's being my teens and adulthood
I was born in 1959. Grew up in the 60s, 70s. The 80s were a good time though. I miss those times.
The good ol days !!! I miss the 80’s man
The 80's were the best time of my life!!!
I was 18 in 1980
The 80s were simply brilliant